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Cat & Nat Unfiltered

Parenting Unfiltered: The Pressure of Picking a University

Cat & Nat Unfiltered

Cat & Nat

Relationships, Kids & Family, Parenting, Funny, Society & Culture, Comedy, Momtruths, Women's Podcast, Life

52.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

We have been touring universites and wow - these kids are putting so much pressure on themselves to figure it all out. Our advice is start early. Exploring options sooner helps to take the weight off and make the decision process simpler in Grade 12/seniour year. Remind kids that their first choice might not be their forever choice. With the right guidance, they can always change direction. Sometimes just knowing it’s not forever makes the whole journey so much easier.


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T's and C's. It's hard. It's hard. And I think if you normalize that it can be hard for some kids,

1:42.2

I think it makes them feel less like there's something

1:44.4

wrong with them because everybody looks like they have their shit together. Everybody looks perfect.

1:49.4

And I think that when you have different conversations of people's experiences, I really encourage

1:54.6

you to find people who share all their journeys and not to scare your kids. It's just to be like,

2:00.4

oh yeah, that was hard.

2:18.7

Yeah. And if that happens to you, it's not the first time you heard it. Funny enough, because I, you know, obviously seeing a lot of that on TikTok now too. I, when I was speaking with someone, they're like, I feel kind of bad saying this because everyone seems to be having such a hard time, but I'm not homesick, but I don't want to tell anybody that.

2:24.6

Because now talking about how homesick you are and how hard it is, is like become like,

2:28.9

such a conversation that he's like, I feel bad saying that I don't miss home.

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